In recent years embedded systems have gained a widespread diffusion both in every market; anyone of us get in touch with them several times a day. Often even without noticing them. Power dissipation, difficulties in increasing the clock frequency, and the need for technology reuse to reduce time-to-market push towards new solutions, such as exploiting inherent application parallelism, running them on multiple standard processor cores. This brought to the definition of Multi-Processor System-on-Chip (MPSoC). Their design raises new challenges due to the large design space and tight design and...